Medicine/Medical. any generally abnormal sound or murmur heard on auscultation.

Archaic. rumor; report.

Archaic. noise; din; clamor.

Origin of bruit

1400–50;late Middle English (noun) < Anglo-French,Old French, noun use of past participle of bruire to roar < Vulgar Latin*brūgere, a conflation of Latinrūgīre to bellow and Vulgar Latin*bragere; see bray1